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Interesting. I’m self employed and do all my business and manage my contacts through my phone with occasional touch-downs to my desktop PC. But I couldn’t get my Android (during the 2 days before I returned it) to connect with my Outlook at all and they told me there was no way of making it do this. For a self-employed person who doesn’t work for a larger entity and use Exchange Server it was totally useless, and I got no support working with it from my provider or from the maker. They basically told me it wouldn’t work for me.

“They basically told me it wouldn’t work for me.”

They basically lied to you — probably out of laziness.

Almost every phone maker provides sync software. It’s usually a download from the phone maker’s website. That and a USB cable would have probably been all you needed to do a tethered sync. That is what I do to sync to my info from my home pc to my phone.

Additionally, since Android is a Google product, you almost certainly would have had to set up a Gmail account somewhere in the process of configuring your phone. At the very least, you could have created a rule in your Outlook to automatically forward any messages received to your Gmail account (and therefore your phone).

I’m a 51 yr old college sophomore. I rarely ever check my student email through the school’s webmail portal because I have a rule set up that forwards all the incoming messages to my 2 home addresses, my work address, and my gmail address. My work address automatically syncs thru Exchange to my phone. My 2 home addresses auto-forward to my phone. My gmail is native to my phone.

It’s a shame you didn’t ask these questions before returning your phone. The FR family could have saved you a lot of frustration. Android is an awesome OS that is being ported to more and more phones. I hope that you are in a big enough market that you were able to tell that provider to stuff it and take your business to a more responsive provider.